He’s young and he’s hot, and now it’s official, Lance Stroll who just turned 18 in October, has signed to race Formula 1 in 2017.
After a stunning season in Formula 3, it was announced today that the young Canadian who had been coached by the Williams team, would be in the team’s lineup this season. The announcement was made in a press conference at the British team’s factory in Oxfordshire, England.
Terms of the contract were not released.
Stroll will replace Felipe Massa who retired at the end of this season. He will join a very short list of previous Canadian F1 pilots, the lflamboyant and legendary driver Gilles Villeneuve, killed in 1982, and his son Jacques who is the only Canadian to win the F1 world championship in 1997 and who retired in 2006.
Stroll began his racing at the age of five in go-karts at the Mont Tremblant track north of Montreal, a race course his father later bought.
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